mr. van hollen: mr. speaker, further on the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: the gentleman from michigan clearly wasn't addressing any of the issues raised in the point of order. i would ask the gentleman about section 311-a of the budget act, which is what this point of order is based upon. let's talk about the point of order. the gentleman, chairman of the ways and means committee, voted for the house budget act. he voted for it. and now he's bringing to the floor of the house a provision that violates the same budget act that that budget was passed pursuant to. so, mr. speaker, let's continue to focus on this point of order. what we have here is a situation where republicans came to this house floor not long ago, passed that budget, and are now here on the floor today with another bill that violates the budget act section 311-a. i would like a ruling on the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the chair prepared to rule. the gentleman from maryland makes a point of order against consid

mr. van hollen: mr. speaker, further on the point of order. e speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: the gentleman from michigan clearly wasn't addressing any of the issues raised in the point of order. i would ask the gentleman about section 311-a of the budget act, which is what this point of order is based upon. let's talk about the point of order. the gentleman, chairman of the ways and means committee, voted for the house budget act. he voted for it. and now he's bringing to the floor of the house a provision that violates the same budget act that that budget was passed pursuant to. so, mr. speaker, let's continue to focus on this point of order. what we have here is a situation where republicans came to this house floor not long ago, passed that budget, and are now here on the floor today with another bill that violates the budget act section 311-a. i would like a ruling on the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the chair prepared to rule. the gentleman from maryland makes a point of order against consider

mr. van hollen: mr. speaker, my understanding of a parliamentary inquiry was where the speaker was supposed to clarify questions of the rules and the parliamentary order. i'm simply asking whether or not in previous rulings by this house, and by the parliamentarian, privileged has been interpreted to mean something that's available to any member of the house not just to the majority leader or the designee of the majority leader. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will not interpret this resolution during its pendency. mr. van hollen: parliamentary inquiry, at what point -- if the chair does not want to interpret this parliamentary inquiry at this time, at what point would it be in order to ask the parliamentarian and the chair to interpret the rules of the house? the speaker pro tempore: the chair will respond to parliamentary inquiries that are relevant to issues that are pending. mr. van hollen: parliamentary inquiry. are we -- is it not the rule passed out of the committee that is pending? is that --

mr. van hollen: mr. speaker, further on the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: the gentleman from michigan clearly wasn't addressing any of the issues raised in the point of order. i would ask the gentleman about section 311-a of the budget act, which is what this point of order is based upon. let's talk about the point of order. the gentleman, chairman of the ways and means committee, voted for the house budget act. he voted for it. and now he's bringing to the floor of the house a provision that violates the same budget act that that budget was passed pursuant to. so, mr. speaker, let's continue to focus on this point of order. what we have here is a situation where republicans came to this house floor not long ago, passed that budget, and are now here on the floor today with another bill that violates the budget act section 311-a. i would like a ruling on the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the chair prepared to rule. the gentleman from maryland makes a point of order against consid

mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. speaker. this is the final amendment to the bill, it will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. if adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. mr. speaker, this motion to recommit does two things. first it ensures that the charities we support, we support in a fiscally responsible manner. by extending these ensentives for two years rather than permanently in order to, number one, give taxpayers clarity, but also to give this congress time to work together on tax reform without piling up huge new deficits. mr. speaker, just yesterday in the budget committee, we had a hearing on the long-term deficits. our republican colleagues said they worried about the long-term deficit picture and yet in the last six weeks, they have added over $500 billion to the deficit in violation of their own budget including what we're doing today. so let's do this extension for two years and in a fiscally responsible manner. the second thing this motion does is it denies the benef

mr. van hollen discussed about giving america a raise. if we're going to give the c.e.o. a raise. again, rosa delauro's healthy family act, to guarantee paid sick leave for men and women and of course, as mr. crowley discussed, george miller's bill, to increase affordable child care. this is so important. children learning. parents earning. it's about men and women, it's about families. house republicans have voted to weaken domestic violence laws and threatened to shut down government rather than fund planned parenthood. democrats will strengthen the violence against women act and expand women's access to comprehensive health care planning. as we gather on the steps of the capital, as my colleagues have referenced, republicans are inside wasting time and taxpayer money on partisan lawsuits against the president. republicans are about process, democrats are about progress. republican process, democratic progress. [applause] thanks to our colleague from kentucky, mr. yarmuth, where are you, mr. yarmuth? thank you, thank you, mr. yarmuth. he has kept us disciplined on a path of a mi

mr. van hollen. >> thank you, chairman. thank you for your testimony. we are here talking about long-term budget outlook and the deficit projections, tenure window marked and 2039. this is based on your current law projections, is that right? >> yes. >> so you've not taken into account, i take, the more than $500 billion that the house houe action would've added to the deficit over the last six weeks through and pay for tax cuts, is that right? >> that's right. >> if those became current law from your deficit projections over both the tenure window and the longer-term window would be even worse than they are? >> that's right. >> i think it's worth pointing out to members of the budget committee, because this budget committee went and filed something on the floor of this house, saying that the house rule should make sure that no bills came to the floor that violated the budget resolution here. that budget resolution said they would be no and paid for tax breaks, and yet we've seen an avalanche of attacks, unfunded tax breaks, $500 billion to date, anothe

mr. van hollen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. again thank you all for your testimony today. it's been very instructive and i want to start also with miss gaines-turner and thank you again for being here and i want to welcome congresswoman barbara lee. the chairman asked you and you were talking about the disincentives to save, for example, because if you put aside something to save then you might no longer qualify for food nutrition benefits. is that right >> right. >> just for our benefit of our colleagues, reducing those cliffs which is something i think all of us would support, certainly on the democratic side, may end up costing more money, right? because what you're saying is that instead of being cut off from food nutrition programs when you start saving you could continue to save and also don't receive your food nutrition benefits until you get to a point where your family is truly at a living wage independently. >> exactly. that's exactly what i'm saying. i want to be very clear in what i'm saying. what i'm saying is, i've been hearing a couple of things about genera

van hollen. >> thank you. thank you, mr. clyburn. as we work to shut down those special interest corporate loopholes that encourage americans, companies to move jobs overseas, as we shut those down and invest those savings in jobs here at home, we need to make sure, as mr. clyburn said, that those jobs pay a decent wage, a living wage, a wage that can support american families. because when american families succeed, all of america succeeds. so there are two things we're going to do. in that first 100 days. the first is end the scandal that in america you can work 40 hours a week, all year long, and still have to raise your family in poverty. that is simply wrong. we need to make sure we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and get that done once and for all. but we cannot stop there. we need to make sure all of america has a shot at a wage. what we've seen over the last several decades is large increases in worker productivity. we have seen skyrocketing increases in c.e.o. pay and bonuses. what we have not seen is increases in t

mr. van hollen. so it's about jobs. the second point is about america's succeeds.one of the best things you can do to grow the economy is to unleash the full power of women in our economy. it's about equal pay for equal work, raising the minimum wage. the 60% of women -- 60% of people making minimum wage are women. it's about affordable quality childcare, which is the missing link in the evolution of women in the workplace. that work-home balance is essential for men and for women, and then the third, affordable education to keep america number one. innovation and entrepreneurship and all the rest all began in the classroom. making higher education more affordable by lowering interest rates. it all begins at a very early it's about early childhood education, children learning, parents earning. we are very proud of the initiative and look forward to continuing to talk about it throughout the country. while we were on the steps of the capital talking about jobs, jobs, that four letter word, how to keep them here, how to grow the economy to create jobs, how we prepare

mr. van hollen's questions regarding the recent activity this congress has done and talk about offshore profits and inversions as it affects some of our revenues. clearly in your report, there is not much we can do about an aging population and some of the spending increases. there are things congress could do. we all know congress doesn't do a lot lately, but one of the things we have been doing is passing these various bills that have passed off, i think $500 million tax bills are going to go to the deficit we haven't funded and $300 million in ways and means. >> i think billions. >> billion dollars sitting out there the question specifically around that is how does this legislation worsen our long-term fiscal outlook directly and through negative economic feedback because of higher rates of government debt? >> those bills were enacted into law and no other changes were made to revenues or spending, then the larger deficits would, over time, crowd out private investment to some extent and would push the level of economic activity down below what it would otherwise be. just like the deficits w

mr. van hollen from maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. speaker. i strongly support the child tax credit. i support expanding and strengthening the child tax credit. the problem is this bill does just the opposite for the most needy families with kids in the united states. they don't get a tax cut under this bill. in fact, they deliberately left behind because this bill fails to extend a critical improvement to the tax credit that's only currently temporary in law, and they don't extend that. now, i heard the chairman of the ways and means committee earlier blaming that once again on the president. as if the president made a our republican colleagues not include that provision in their bill. well, extending the child tax credit is in the president's budget. extending the child tax credit is in the house democratic budget. extending that child tax credit enhancement is not in the house republican budget, and that's why it's no

mr. van hollen: we look forward to working together to make sure that this situation is resolved as quickly as possible and the perpetrators are held accountable, and i know we all stand together on that as well and i'm grateful to my colleague for bringing this together for this purpose. mr. huizenga: today, we humbly ask our colleagues to join us in a moment of silence as we pay respect of all 298 passengers of mh-17 that had their lives tragically cut short. the speaker pro tempore: all members of the people's house and those in the gallery, please rise for a moment of silence. without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to instruct on h.r. 3230 offered by the gentleman from california, mr. peters, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will redesignate the motion. the clerk: motion to instruct conferees or h.r. 3230 offered by mr. peters of california. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to instruct. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made

van hollen. >> thank you. thank you, mr. clyburn. as we work to shut down those special interest corporate loopholes that encourage americans, companies to move jobs overseas, as we shut those down and invest those savings in jobs here at home, we need to make sure, as mr. clyburn said, that those jobs pay a decent wage, a living wage, a wage that can support american families. because when american families succeed, all of america succeeds. so there are two things we're going to do. in that first 100 days. the first is end the scandal that in america you can work 40 hours a week, all year long, and still have to raise your family in poverty. that is simply wrong. we need to make sure we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and get that done once and for all. but we cannot stop there. we need to make sure all of america has a shot at a wage. what we've seen over the last several decades is large increases in worker productivity. we have seen skyrocketing increases in c.e.o. pay and bonuses. what we have not seen is increases in t

van hollen. >> thank you. thank you, mr. clyburn. as we work to shut down those special interest corporate loopholes that encourage americans, companies to move jobs overseas, as we shut those down and invest those savings in jobs here at home, we need to make sure, as mr. clyburn said, that those jobs pay a decent wage, a living wage, a wage that can support american families. because when american families succeed, all of america succeeds. so there are two things we're going to do. in that first 100 days. the first is end the scandal that in america you can work 40 hours a week, all year long, and still have to raise your family in poverty. that is simply wrong. we need to make sure we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and get that done once and for all. but we cannot stop there. we need to make sure all of america has a shot at a wage. what we've seen over the last several decades is large increases in worker productivity. we have seen skyrocketing increases in c.e.o. pay and bonuses. what we have not seen is increases in t

mr. chairman. >> dr. elmendorf. >> thank you chairman ryan and ranking member van hollen. we are happy to be back today to talk about the outlook on the budget long-term. the federal budget deficit is shrinking as your to its smallest size since 2007 roughly $500 billion in our estimate. federal spending will equal about 20.5% of gdp which is quite close to its average over the past four years. federal revenues will equal about 17.5% of gdp which is quite close to their historical average. as a result the deficit will also be close to its 40 year average of 3% of gdp. however if current law governs taxes and spending stayed the same deficits will become notably larger after several years. debt held by the public would start to raise the debt more rapidly than gdp and because such debt is now larger relative to gdp than any point in u.s. history except for a brief period around world war ii further increases in the long-term could be especially harmful. 25 years from now and 2039 the federal debt held by the public would exceed 100% of gdp we project. the upward path of deb

mr. president, you should be taking more of the unilateral executive action that we want to sue you for. it is just mind spinning, and i think the american public is fed up. >> congressman chris van hollenk you for the update. good luck to you on capitol hill. >> thank you. thanks, alex. >>> joining me now is former rnc chair michael steele and washington post columnist and senior fellow of the brookings institute, chairman deion. speaker cruz, that would know seem to be a good thing for the republican party. >> no. and i don't think it's a good thing for the process right now in trying to get something done. you know, it is clear whoever is doing the counting can't count because this was supposed to have been done, and done early and then everyone could break and they can send the bill to the senate and it all gets worked out. so right now the party is, you know, dealing with a little bit of national embarrassment. the narrative right now sucks, quite frankly, on a number of fronts and i think, being very honest about it, we have to take stock about how we are going to be a governing majority if we cannot govern something like this right now. so i think there are a lot of conservatives